• Tick paralysis is a type of paralysis caused by specific types of attached ticks. Unlike tick-borne diseases caused by infectious organisms, the illness...
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    Australian paralysis tick, is one of about 75 species in the Australian tick fauna and is considered the most medically important. It can cause paralysis by injecting...
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    causative agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosis. Dermacentor ticks may also induce tick paralysis by elaboration of a neurotoxin that induces rapidly progressive...
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  • this condition is Landry's ascending paralysis) Tick paralysis Ascending paralysis contrasts with descending paralysis, which occurs in conditions such as...
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    Argas persicus (redirect from Fowl tick)
    stage of A. persicus. Tick paralysis is included in avian spirochetosis and appears in the same fashion. The flaccid paralysis ascends throughout the...
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    Ixodidae (redirect from Ixodid tick)
    female ticks is toxic, causing ascending paralysis in animals and people, known as tick paralysis. Tick species that are commonly associated with tick paralysis...
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  • certain species of ticks. Symptoms typically ranges from fatigue, numbness in the legs, muscle aches, and, to in some cases, paralysis and other severe...
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    Australian paralysis tick, are also intrinsically venomous and can cause tick paralysis. Eggs can become infected with pathogens inside a female tick's ovaries...
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    polish, petroleum jelly or heat on the tick to try to remove it. In Australia, where the Australian paralysis tick is prevalent, the Australasian Society...
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    paralysis. Bell's palsy is often treated with corticosteroids. Lyme disease, an infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria and spread by ticks...
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